Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin elevated nitric oxide levels in rice root tips.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativae1 - Organ / stage
- root tipse0
- Treatment
- MTe0
- Outcome
- nitric oxide (NO) levelse0
- Direction
- elevatede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“MT elevated nitric oxide (NO) levels in root tips”
e1“alleviating Cu toxicity in rice.”
Title
Melatonin Modulates Copper Homeostasis Through NO Dependent Manner in Rice ( Oryza sativa L.)
Jing Huang; Hao Yu Wang; Jia Qi Li; et al. Journal of Pineal Research 2025. doi:10.1111/jpi.70092
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Excess copper increased endogenous melatonin in rice roots.
- Intervention effect Excess copper enhanced expression of genes involved in melatonin biosynthesis in rice roots.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin reduced copper accumulation in stressed rice.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin restored rice root growth under copper stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased rice root pectin content.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased copper retention in root pectin.
- Mechanism Melatonin reduced copper influx into the cytoplasm.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin upregulated OsHMA4 expression.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin upregulated OsHMA6 and OsHMA9 expression.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin downregulated OsCOPT1, OsCOPT2, and OsCOPT3 expression.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin downregulated OsCOPT7 expression.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin downregulated OsHMA5 expression.
- Intervention effect The nitric oxide scavenger attenuated the copper-stress mitigation from melatonin in rice.